Allen Adams

Who was Allen Adams?

Allender Steele Adams, known as Allen Adams, was a British Labour politician.

Adams was born in Glasgow. He married Irene on 24 February 1968.

Adams, a Strathclyde Regional Councillor, was elected Member of Parliament for Paisley from 1979 to 1983, then for Paisley North from 1983 until his death in 1990 at the age of 44. He had served as Labour's Scottish whip whilst an MP. On 31 March 1988, he described Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons as having "behaved towards Scotland with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor".

In the by-election that followed his death, his widow, Irene Adams, was elected MP for Paisley North.